The issue is Alex Write’s persistent and long term abuse of his position on Joyfreak using his so-called “articles” to peddle affiliates that at the very least irrelevant and at the worst questionable in terms of morals, legality and do not comply with the “Terms and Use” policies everybody else is required to follow. This is being discussed on the forum on another of Alex’s threads if you want to learn more.
This thread, however, is whare he truly crossed the line. The first hyperlink in this “article” leads to a premium cam site, and that’s the best case scenario. There is reason to suspect It could be something even worse. Either way, it is clearly not the innocent and legit dating site that an official representative of Joyfreak has claimed it to be. More information on that can be found if the thread I mentioned and linked to earlier.
However, the only responses I am getting is being flat out ignored, dismissal of my concerns and lame attempts to cover up dissussion of these issues on the forum. So, like I said in the beggining, I’m left with little choice bringing this up until I either get banned, or the community recieves a constructive responce with regard to these issues.
I will offer the staff my compliments on job there are doing very well in relation a separate issue of spam and bot/spam activity that has been plaguing the forum over the past year or so. I seen a marked improvement in recent weeks in Joyfreaks’s response and quality of action with regard to this problem. It’s still a big problem, but I am very happy to see this marked improvement of how it’s being addressed. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to both @Aries and the moderation team.
However, the undeniably good job JoyFreak’s staff are doing over that issue aids in exposing the sheer hypocrisy that is this situation with Alex Write. There is little difference between his “articles” and what we see from much of the spam that makes it onto this forum. A disigrnous attempt to make something look like legitimate review, advice or commentary when it’s actually all built around a link or links the text coaxes people to click on. It might look like I just describes a spam topic, and maybe I did, but maybe I was describing one of Alex’s “articles”. How can one tell the difference?
Alex is on the staff. That’s how one tells the difference. That is literally it. That and, as far as I know, the bots have never posted links to porn.
All I want from @Aries and the Joyfreak staff is some transparency and honesty. We need to know why Alex Write is allowed to use the forum in this way. People need to to alerted that activities that are not suitable to those under a certain age are promoted by the website. This is critical so people can make the right decision for themselves and thier dependants or whether or not they should participate. If @Aries approves and want to promote this stuff on the site then fine, all I ask is for them to be up front about it.
The core problem is that, is this current state, this forum is not safe. It’s not safe for children and it is not safe for people particlarly vulnerable to predetory gambling, but there are no such warnings to such vulerable people. Nobody expects to have guard themselves against such dangers when they sign up to what is supposed to be a video game forum. But no, on Joyfreak not only are they not protected, they get these things thrown in thier face by the staff! The very people who’s job it is to protect them!
Like I said, if you want to have promotions like this then that’s fine. Do I think it’s appropriate for a video game forum? No. Would I allow it? No. But that decision is not mine. It’s your website @Aries , run it how you want. My problem with this is the lack of transparency. Despite my trepidations, it is OK to have Alex promote websites that are clearly only meant for adults, but it is not OK to allow under 18’s to sign up to this forum knowing that the website is doing so without at least warning people first.
So please @Aries , if you can address this in an open, honest, constructive and complete manner and take appropriate action, then I promice this is the last time I will comment on this issue and just ignore Alex’s “articles” from now on.
